The Falcon and the Snowman

“They came from the best of families. And they committed the worst of crimes.”

Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) is a young employee at a military contractor, and what he reads on the job has left him disillusioned with his own government. His childhood friend Daulton Lee (Sean Penn) is a drug pusher, and the two of them become walk-in spies for the Soviet Union. John Schlesinger tells their true story as a spy drama that keeps the dread low and constant.